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International racing authorities scheduling Formula One events should consider alleged human rights violations before they reschedule a 2011 race postponed in Bahrain after a massive uprising against the Gulf state's monarchy in February, New York-based...

This post has been corrected. See the note at the bottom for details. Bahrain lifted its emergency law Wednesday, almost three months after it called in Saudi troops to crush a largely peaceful protest movement popular among the island’s Shiite........

A top Bahraini official accused Iran of scuttling a potential deal between the government and the opposition during a weekend dialogue that went nowhere. Fahad Ebrahim Shehabi, a spokesman for the Bahraini parliament, said the talks were going well until....

Bahrain report cites abuses. A special commission reported Wednesday that Bahraini security forces used excessive force and torture against mostly Shiite Muslim protesters who rose up against the Sunni monarchy early this year....

One day before Bahraini protesters are slated to mark the first anniversary of protests against the government, street battles flared Monday between and protesters and police, marked by clouds of tear gas. Opposition activists are urging protesters to...

Every day on World Now we choose a striking photo from around the globe. Today we chose this shot from Bahrain, where tens of thousands of people poured onto the streets of Manama to protest for reform. There were lots of remarkable photographs, but...

The Bahraini king praised his government on Tuesday for working hard to make changes since an international commission laid out a long list of abuses made in its crackdown on protests last year. His critics, however, were unswayed by his praise for...

The United Kingdom isn’t the only kingdom out there. As Queen Elizabeth II is feted this weekend in a diamond jubilee marking 60 years on the throne, here are some other monarchs from around the globe -- and what they've been up to....

In Sarah Palin is *not* going to work for Al Jazeera, Jim Romenesko tells how the Washington Post was taken in by a post at the Daily Currant that began with three, dry, plausible paragraphs when announcing this "news": Just......